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Operation Gladio
- The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
- By: Paul L. Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....
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Questionable
- By Jean Baptiste Pasqually on 04-12-2024
By: Paul L. Williams
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall299
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Performance267
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Story264
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...
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Single minded attempt to prove a point.
- By steve on 27-08-2018
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Under Siege
- My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation
- By: Eric Trump, Donald J. Trump - introduction, Lara Trump - introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Trump
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this eye-opening memoir, Eric Trump relays surprising and gripping moments throughout his life and career as part of one of America’s most prominent families. From his earliest memories of growing up as part of the Trump family to...
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awesome story
- By Lincoln wallace on 03-01-2026
By: Eric Trump, and others
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The Next Civil War
- Dispatches from the American Future
- By: Stephen Marche
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue...
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left wing drivel
- By Anonymous on 02-06-2023
By: Stephen Marche
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
- The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
- By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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Story20
"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New Republic A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take...
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Laugh out loud
- By Anonymous on 09-06-2025
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This Time We Went Too Far
- By: Norman G. Finkelstein
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions....
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Operation Gladio
- The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
- By: Paul L. Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican....
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Questionable
- By Jean Baptiste Pasqually on 04-12-2024
By: Paul L. Williams
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Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall299
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Performance267
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Story264
NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity” “A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world...
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Single minded attempt to prove a point.
- By steve on 27-08-2018
By: Daron Acemoglu, and others
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Under Siege
- My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation
- By: Eric Trump, Donald J. Trump - introduction, Lara Trump - introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Trump
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this eye-opening memoir, Eric Trump relays surprising and gripping moments throughout his life and career as part of one of America’s most prominent families. From his earliest memories of growing up as part of the Trump family to...
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awesome story
- By Lincoln wallace on 03-01-2026
By: Eric Trump, and others
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The Next Civil War
- Dispatches from the American Future
- By: Stephen Marche
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “Delivers Cormac McCarthy-worthy drama; while the nonfictional asides imbue...
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left wing drivel
- By Anonymous on 02-06-2023
By: Stephen Marche
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
- The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
- By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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Story20
"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New Republic A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take...
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Laugh out loud
- By Anonymous on 09-06-2025
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This Time We Went Too Far
- By: Norman G. Finkelstein
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions....
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Life, Law & Liberty
- By: Anthony Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy - introduction
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Throughout his thirty-year tenure on the US Supreme Court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy authored landmark opinions on some of the most contested issues in American society, including abortion, gay rights, and free speech. At the ideological center of a divided Court, Kennedy sided with justice...
By: Anthony Kennedy, and others
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story39
Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state....
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Better experienced as a read book
- By Todd on 18-08-2016
By: Glenn Greenwald
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Secret Empires
- How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
- By: Peter Schweizer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance14
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Story15
#1 New York Times Bestseller! America's top politicians have discovered the scam to end all scams. Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption—and winning—for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In...
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it's gotta stop
- By Elizabeth on 19-10-2019
By: Peter Schweizer
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Ingen engel
- Sådan infiltrerede jeg Hells Angels
- By: Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson Shelton
- Narrated by: Thomas Gulstad
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Agenten Jay Dobyns gik undercover hos Hells Angels, i forsøget på at bringe dem til fald. Følg hans oplevelser i denne spændende...
By: Jay Dobyns, and others
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The Invisible Coup
- How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon
- By: Peter Schweizer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Every day, ICE is arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants with a criminal record. They didn’t just come here. They were sent here. Our debates about immigration revolve around what happens with immigrants once they arrive. We need to start talking about who is sending them and why. For...
By: Peter Schweizer
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Breaking History
- A White House Memoir
- By: Jared Kushner
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jared Kushner
- Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance25
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Story25
Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency. Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his...
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Was Kushner really America first.
- By Anonymous on 22-09-2022
By: Jared Kushner
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The Management of Savagery
- How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
- By: Max Blumenthal
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance13
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Story13
In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs....
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Eye watering exposure on media and political power
- By matt r. on 25-08-2022
By: Max Blumenthal
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
- 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
- By: Bandy X. Lee MD - editor
- Narrated by: William Dufris, Hillary Huber, Alex Hyde-White, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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Story35
As this best seller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the audiobook up to date - because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a...
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Scary stuff!
- By Mrs. Kaja Malouf on 27-02-2019
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The Situation Room
- The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
- By: George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim, Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions. No room better defines American power and its role in...
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The authenticity
- By Anonymous on 24-05-2024
By: George Stephanopoulos, and others
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Watergate
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane...
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An outstanding achievement
- By JayD on 27-06-2022
By: Garrett M. Graff
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The Case for American Power
- By: Shadi Hamid
- Narrated by: Aden Hakimi
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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A provocative case for why a better world is only possible with American power by Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid. From acclaimed author Shadi Hamid comes an urgent and deeply personal argument for why American dominance, despite its many flaws, remains the world’s best hope. Hamid...
By: Shadi Hamid
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Gumption
- Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
- By: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance78
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Story79
The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation’s history, from her inception to present day—Nick’s personal pantheon of “great Americans...
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Nick is Amazing
- By Mick on 14-06-2020
By: Nick Offerman
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World Without Cancer
- The Story of Vitamin B17
- By: G. Edward Griffin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance26
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Story26
Mr. Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease like scurvy or pellagra aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modem man's diet....
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In 2015 the Media are only now Exposing this!
- By mvernon@spin.net.au on 15-07-2015
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- By: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year “An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA “Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York...
By: Raj M. Shah, and others
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 2 of a 3-Part Recording)
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Story29
Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years At the heart of the book is its...
By: Robert A. Caro
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance19
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Story19
No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term....
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Gives you a lot to think about
- By Michael Geros on 05-07-2021
By: Frank Dikötter
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The Main Enemy
- The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB
- By: Milton Bearden, James Risen
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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Story17
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....
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Poorly written
- By Anonymous on 12-08-2019
By: Milton Bearden, and others
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George Washington
- The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
- By: David O. Stewart
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart “An outstanding biography . . . [George Washington] has a narrative drive such a life deserves.”—The Wall...
By: David O. Stewart
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Butler
- The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
- By: Salena Zito
- Narrated by: Helen Wynn
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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“Salena Zito is the journalist who knows Trump—and his voters—better than anyone.” – The Free Press From the acclaimed journalist standing only a few feet away from the stage when the gunshots began is this gripping first-hand account of the near assassination of Donald Trump – and...
By: Salena Zito
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Second Class
- How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women
- By: Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Narrated by: Batya Ungar-Sargon
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more.
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Real stories from the working class
- By Matthew Flett on 12-01-2025
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Democracy Incorporated
- Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
- By: Sheldon S. Wolin
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Democracy is struggling in America. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable....
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very topical in 2021 and insightful
- By Brian Hopper on 27-01-2021
By: Sheldon S. Wolin
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The End of Power
- From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
- By: Moises Naim
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond. br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public...
By: Moises Naim
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Triggered
- How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us
- By: Donald Trump Jr.
- Narrated by: Donald Trump Jr., James Edward Thomas
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance76
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Story77
This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read: Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to rampant "political correctness." In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr...
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Non-stop Moaning
- By dajobi on 13-11-2019
By: Donald Trump Jr.
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JFK and the Unspeakable
- Why He Died and Why It Matters
- By: James W. Douglass
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 22 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance39
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Story39
At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history....
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beware the CIA
- By Grant Lewis on 12-04-2024
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One Nation Under the Influence
- America's Drug Habit and How We Can Overcome It
- By: Kevin A. Sabet PhD
- Narrated by: Kevin A. Sabet PhD
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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In One Nation Under the Influence, he asks hard questions and provides clear answers, taking listeners from the streets of San Francisco and New York to the southern border, up to Canada, and across to Europe to show how we can chart a necessary way forward. The solutions are out there, if only we have the will to apply them.
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The Invisible Coup
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Every day, ICE is arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants with a criminal record. They didn’t just come here. They were sent here. Our debates about immigration revolve around what happens with immigrants once they arrive. We need to start talking about who is sending them and why. For...
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Hey Yang, Where's My Thousand Bucks?
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From former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a candid and humorous blueprint for finding optimism in troubling times IN THIS FRANK, OFTEN HILARIOUS COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES, political trailblazer Andrew Yang examines America’s breakdown through the lens of his unexpected journey from...
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Boss Lincoln
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An eye–opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career–long party politician whose brilliant coalition–building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory. We know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to his character and leadership: Lincoln was a master of party politics.
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JESSE HELMS
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Jesse Helms didn’t move with the times, he stood in front of them and said “No.” For over three decades, Senator Jesse Helms turned obstruction into strategy, morality into legislation, and the culture war into his personal mission field. From North Carolina radio rants to the halls of Congress, Helms made his name by drawing hard lines and refusing to budge. He fought civil rights, foreign aid, gay rights, and modern art with the same unwavering conviction and changed the shape of American conservatism in the process.
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Don’t Tell the President
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Dukakis is in the tank! The Queen looks like a talking purple hat! We didn’t leave Chelsea Clinton in Moscow, right? The most harrowing and hilarious stories behind presidential events over the past sixty years—from the Rose Garden to Air Force One, foreign trips to the campaign...
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One Nation Under the Influence
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In One Nation Under the Influence, he asks hard questions and provides clear answers, taking listeners from the streets of San Francisco and New York to the southern border, up to Canada, and across to Europe to show how we can chart a necessary way forward. The solutions are out there, if only we have the will to apply them.
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The Invisible Coup
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Boss Lincoln
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JESSE HELMS
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The Church Committee Report
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After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, accessible volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of the US government spying on its own citizens.
By: Matthew Guariglia, and others
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Money, Parties, and Democracy
- Political Finance Between Fat Cats and Big Government
- By: Matteo Bonotti, Zim Nwokora
- Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Democratic politics is expensive. In US presidential elections, for instance, total spending now exceeds $6.5 billion. In the US, election campaigns are largely funded by private donations from individuals and corporate entities, whereas in Germany, the state is the main funder of electoral politics through subventions to parties.
By: Matteo Bonotti, and others
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Founding Fanatics
- Extremism and the Formation of American Democracy
- By: Noah Eber-Schmid
- Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Scholars and citizens have often assumed that dispassionate rationality, reciprocity, and nonviolent tolerance are necessary conditions for the sustained development of democracy. Accordingly, they reject oppositional parties that spurn consensus and terms of mutual respect—and often use force to accomplish their political goals—denouncing extremists as antidemocratic.
By: Noah Eber-Schmid
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The Fractured Union
- By: James W. Parker
- Narrated by: John Clayton
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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In a future closer than you think, the once-united republic has shattered. States have seceded. New flags rise where old ones once flew. Texas declares independence. California votes to return to Mexico. Alaska and Hawaii forge global alliances. And in the heartland, ordinary people are forced to choose between loyalty, survival-and freedom.
By: James W. Parker
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University
- A Reckoning
- By: Lee C. Bollinger
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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The American university―one of the most successful institutions in human history―is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of the US. Experts on authoritarianism have drawn comparisons to other countries where strongmen subdued universities as part of their power grabs. Yet, as former Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger points out in his account of the university's significance, in such dire times, one has no choice but to state clearly and forcefully what one stands for.
By: Lee C. Bollinger